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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... -Entry is a wonderful place. People like Mitra even hang out here. It's like ... would certainly be a Republican.)   The hallway. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  , framing myself in a movie, I realized just how crazy it all is. That I go to ... character syndrome." I agree. I think my sense of self is a little too acute ... , away from Boston, even. Two thirds of the way through a semester is a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  so far. Technically it's a grad class, and yeah the class is about half ... fares. (those red boxes show where on the platform the camera is ... pretty much say that they all look pretty similar. :-P Line 14's was like a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  across a box labeled "Lifestyles: XTra Pleasure" Oh my goodness. I only ... to me is my fraternity. I came to MIT saying that joining a fraternity ... of ZBT. Funny how that works. I ended up joining a fraternity because I

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... Camp Kesem. As I wrote in a previous entry, Camp Kesem is a free summer ... It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  your room to how to decide whether you should go to class can be a ... until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate yourself to learn how to cook. This blog will give you a few tips on eating

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  : "no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the ... from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take ... call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  , didn’t realize just how much of a powerhouse MIT was. But if you think ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... know the truth: that MIT is a jock school. They know that these nerds are

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  is a terrible pit of fear that it is not going to work, but I ... it is a comfort and stability I've never really experienced before ... the rooftops of Greece before moving into a quaint apartment with seven

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self ... consists of both a run and a coop. The run is the big screen-enclosed outdoor

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... ’ll remember how you all always talked about starting a band with them without ... .5 years ago (eep!), I asked my EC about how much support he got when he was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  love so much is that a ghost always haunts the people in the house. In ... stagnate with an old version of myself.   . . .   Painting is a ... wanted me to take care of her horses for a while. How do you go from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  have a much better sense of humor than Harvard students. While this is no ... prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... you discovered, albeit through a flawed experiment, is what everybody

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="93299" /] ---🍂🍂🍂--- Living off campus has also created a much needed layer of ... whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me ... new advisor and my new lab is pretty good, I have a lot of freedom to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three ... a lot of people are excited to see some art! But where is everyone

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ].[/caption]A slightly more sophisticated scale is the Vickers hardness scale ... on MIT’s hardness? Is the measurement process simply too complex for a ... scale. Note that this is plotted on a log scale.[/caption] All numbers

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  identity. You can't box your personhood in a handful of words, much less ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  a pressure sensor to measure how much gas collects over time. It also ... to analyze how much methane is actually in the gas we've collected ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  ”, because not all robots are humanoid. A robot is just an automatic machine. A ... because the modern field of robotics is equally broad. It’s a highly ... . I’ll oversimplify these a bit as a summary: Mechanical engineering is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  completely insane. As a senior, I pretty much had my pick of all the rooms on ... the end of this tunnel of a room which does not allow very much light ... -and-half idea. As you can see, light really is a problem in this room...but now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008